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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 114 0 Browse Search
James Russell Lowell, Among my books 80 0 Browse Search
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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 46 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises 38 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 32 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 30 0 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 20 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: October 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Bragg's army. (search)
ul means to accomplish it, cannot be doubted. He saw but too plainly that the freedom of the seas was essential to the prosperity of France, and that the conquest of the whole continent could not supply that one want. He was a great and original genius, but it never entered his head that the best way to contend with a great naval power was to blow up all his ships. That idea is of later origin, and deserves all the credit for originality that can be claimed by the admirers of Homer and Shakespeare for the most original of their conceptions. Any man who will take the trouble to consult Leanne's Journal, in that part which relates to the harbor of Cherbourg, will see with what prodigious energy Napoleon pushed his naval preparations long after the battle of Trafalgar had destroyed the French marine. The Spartans never thought of destroying the ships of their allies in the Peloponnesian war because the Athenian were the stronger at sea. Notwithstanding the disaster at Syracuse,